Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web - Softcover

Wodtke, Christina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0735712506 ISBN 13: 9780735712508

Publisher: New Riders Pub, 2002

Synopsis

All web sites have an architecture, whether you design one or not-just as every building has an architecture, from the lowly shanty by the railroad track to Chicago¿s tallest skyscraper. Unfortunately, most web sites are shanties, not skyscrapers. Companies that hastily threw up a web site in the dot-com boom days were visited by building inspector Jakob Neilsen, who told them their site should be condemned. But now we are entering a time of rebuilding, and we¿ve got a chance to get it right.

Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web introduces the core concepts of information architecture: organizing web site content so that it can be found, designing web site interaction so that it's pleasant to use, and creating an interface that is easy to understand. This book will help designers, project managers, programmers, and other information architecture practitioners avoid the costly mistakes of the past by teaching the skills of information architecture swiftly and clearly. Use this book and you will pass the usability inspection with flying colors!

About this title

About the Author:

Christina Wodtke has been an information architect for four years and is a leader in the growing field of information architecture. She founded Boxes and Arrows, an online magazine of information architecture; chaired the fourth annual ASIS&T summit on information architecture; and has spoken on the topic of information architecture at conferences ranging from Seybold to Web World.

Christina is a partner at Carbon IQ, a user-experience agency in San Francisco, where she designs information architectures and conducts user research in the quest to create more usable, effective, and profitable products. Clients have included Shockwave.com, Wells Fargo, Sprite, and Houghton Mifflin, as well as nonprofits such as BraveKids.org and UrbanSchool.org.

Review:

"...a significant, clear and useful port in the increasing data storm..." -- Richard Saul Wurman, Author of 80 books, including Information Architects, and creator of the field of Information Architecture

"Finally, a book about the technical topics of web architecture and usability that is fun to read, informative and authoritative." -- Don Norman, Northwestern University and The Nielsen Norman Group, Author of The Design of Everyday Things

About this edition

• Publisher: New Riders Pub
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0735712506
• ISBN 13: 9780735712508
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224